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Borne surveys the dude ranching industry from its infancy in the188os to the present. He also discusses the various types of ranches andassesses dude ranching's current situation and future. An appendix lists356 dude ranches that were in operation in 1934.Texas Tech University DAVID J. MURRAHChinese in the Post-Civil War South: A People without a History. By Lucy M.Cohen. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984.Pp. xviii+ 2 11. Preface, acknowledgments, map, illustrations, ap-pendices, note on sources, bibliography, index. $25.)After the Civil War, southern growers and entrepreneurs faced anunprecedented crisis-a population of emancipated blacks who hadbecome, in the words of a Louisiana planter, "so saucy and unreliable,that they are intolerable" (p. 1 19). One much publicized remedy was toimport Chinese workers, who, it was advertised, would be more tractableand whose arrival might bring the blacks back into line.Accordingly, the first group of Chinese were brought to Louisianafrom Cuba in 1867. Others followed in 1870 and afterward, eitherhired and shipped directly from China or, more commonly, obtainedindirectly through San Francisco. Almost always the Chinese came ascontract laborers, typically for three-year terms, and they came asmembers of large labor gangs. Most were employed by railroad com-panies and by cotton and sugar growers.None of these experiments in labor substitution worked, however.Within a year most of the imported Chinese, in disregard of their con-tracts and against the wishes of their employers, had walked off theirjobs. A few became cotton sharecroppers or resettled in urban centerslike New Orleans. The rest left the South for good. And so, almost assuddenly as they had come, the Chinese "disappeared from history"(p. xii).This study by Lucy M. Cohen, an anthropologist who is herself thegranddaughter of a Chinese immigrant to El Salvador, is a fascinatingbut flawed work. The title seems to promise a survey of the Chinesethroughout the South during Reconstruction. Instead, the book focusesrather narrowly on Louisiana, and then only down to 1871, well shortof the end of Reconstruction. Moreover, the organization is at timesdisjointed; the analysis, inadequate. There is, for example, no discus-sion of why the courts did not support the planters when they broughtsuit against the Chinese for leaving before their contracted term of ser-vice was up.